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australia's 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 hacker ✌️• hacking stories: 📝 • @purpleconnz vibe technician 💜• they/them • DMs open 👀 • mangopdf @crime .bargains 📧

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4 years
for the past six months i've been secretly participating in the Do Not Get Arrested Challenge 2020
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youth pastor, wearing cat ear gaming headset: jesus tanked so we could dps
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4 years
oh they got some /genders/ on display today folks
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anyone who is passionate about utc timestamps has been through some dark stuff
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4 years
"So you know when you’re flopping about at home, minding your own business, drinking from your water bottle in a way that does not possess any intent to subvert the Commonwealth of Australia?"
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3 years
new merch just dropped
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2 years
y-your hacker uh name is um *stumbling* your public ip address + your uh ssh private key
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5 years
hey youtube welcome to my hacking tutorial, today we're gonna hack.... the nsa
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4 years
stack overflow, but for feelings
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3 years
embarrassing how few people realise the solution to the trolley problem
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2 years
mum said it's my turn with the mutex
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new zelda is messed up i saw a guy build a json formatter
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2 years
listen java and js we just wanna compare two strings with "==" without knowing the history of the language in 1997
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2 years
um okay aws "owns" computers and we "rent" time using them idk this sounds suspiciously like landlords to me
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1 year
the girls are tearing your s3 bucket permissions policy apart in the group chat
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1 year
"9 girlfriends" factoid actualy just statistical error. average hacker has 0.0031 girlfriends mostly. maia girlfriends crimew, who lives in cave & has over 10,000 girlfriends, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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3 years
you know how "malware" means bad software but there's no word for good software? i'm just saying
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4 years
know the risks
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4 years
oops i mixed up my pictures of cyber security products and mens deodorant againnnn. i tried to fix them but it was too hard. can anyone help?
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2 years
everyone's so smug saying "deleting code in PRs is good, actually" but nobody wants to talk about my "delete the codebase" idea
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3 years
senior engineer moment
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6 years
hm weird that they'd name a shop "*******" but ok
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3 years
someone who is definitely a kid dm'd me and it was v cute. icon behaviour honestly
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9 months
"highly skilled and sophisticated attackers" the attackers:
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6 years
can't wait to see that new OSI networking model movie, Ready Layer One
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2 years
your hacker name is your favourite fruit + your least favourite file extension
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7 years
ah, cryptocurrency, combining the stability of computers with the stability of money
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1 year
security tip: the private key is the one you send someone when you want to communicate privately
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5 years
golang's compiler is quite strict and opinionated, for example, the compiler actually forces you to brag that your code is written in go
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4 months
who got that one ssh private key
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3 years
*huge vape hit* when you've been in this industry long enough kiddo, every monday is cyber monday
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4 years
oh you're a hacker? name every google search result
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6 months
advanced macOS phishing tip: hit them with the
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3 years
it's currently 38 degrees celsius, which is about 15 miles for all you americans out there
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5 months
imagine getting absolutely murdered in the legend of a graph of all places
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3 years
cryptocurrency tip: don't
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1 year
hi @_nyancrimew how is your participation in the Do Not Get Arrested Challenge 2023 going
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3 years
yeah i use vim v isual i m studio code
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4 years
TRUE randomness needs to be aged in a barrel in a GPG maintainer's garage for 256 years, otherwise it's just sparkling noise
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7 years
security tip: put " (x86)" after directory names to confuse hackers app/ static/ js/ js (x86)/ css/ css (x86)/
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3 years
listen, i know communicating your feelings to people is hard, that's why i think we should all just settle down and invent a nice, simple, JSON-based protocol t
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6 years
Hey everybody welcome to Operation Luigi, where my friend gave me permission to try to hack all her stuff. This is what I did, how I did it, and how to prevent it from working on you. Also at the end Mario's good green brother is there
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2 years
happy birthday to everyone too lazy to put their real birthday into the form
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1 year
cs lewis, or as friends called him, computer science lewis
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1 year
ppl rly call themselves hackers and don't even post about the everywhere-continuous nowhere-differentiable weierstrass function
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2 years
anyone: tyvm my brain: Thank You Virtual Machine
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1 year
h*cking is a slur now. the correct term is "non consensual surprise backup"
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2 years
infosec interview tip: it's okay to say "i don't know", for example your interviewer also doesn't know how to pronounce " @thegrugq "
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1 year
security tip: crime is legal for 1 second at 11:59:59pm on NYE due to a race condition in the new year's code
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3 years
coding tip: if you get an error, just try running the exact same code again, it'll definitely work this time you desperate fool
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3 years
when people ask "is this secure?" i just... i mean probably? unless someone rly wants to get around it? like who r ur enemies? i know this is not what u want to hear but maybe u need to hear it u kno
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3 years
so hype for @BSidesCbr !!! 📈 see u soon everyone!!! 😊✌️🎉
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3 years
in 1980 or something every hacker tool wouldn't start until it printed a massive ascii banner with like "t00t t00t get r00t"
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1 year
i wish i hadn't learned about this from a meme, because now whenever it comes up i just think "ah the brain trade offer thing"
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4 years
quick update re: doubting me ever again (s/o @smh )
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3 years
found out .msi files are secretly .zips, just like .docx, .xlsx, anyway what i'm trying to say is ZIP gang
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3 years
we did it
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2 years
we can build it. we have the technology
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4 years
*emailing resume* yeah uhhh as you can see from this pdf, you should give me insane amounts of money
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3 years
weird bug in cyberpunk where i now have root access to the polish government
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3 years
one of the things i like about cryptocurrency is that it's sustainable indefinitely and has no downsides
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2 years
update
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4 years
when you succeed at programming
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3 years
oh my god
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3 years
ah, to be in the information age
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3 years
i know there's a lotta tweets to scroll today but consider:
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1 year
wow i see what all the Rust hype was about, i love Optional, i talk about crates at parties now, i'm getting into djing, dyeing my hair, i wear thigh high stripy programming socks now, it's got a crab
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3 years
but what IS hacking?
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4 years
when computer people first meet, it's tense until someone establishes dominance by saying "not to flex but I know the names of several linux distributions"
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4 years
how did this article know exactly what i was too afraid to say
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1 year
i'm going to the dark web do you want anything
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2 years
people rly ask you to sign NDAs then drop just the worst app idea you've ever seen
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2 years
new mango talk dropping at 5pm today at @kawaiiconNZ 👀👀👀
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6 years
can't remember which hacking tool does what? it's easy if you use ĘMØJÎ nmap - 👀 dirbuster - 💪 aircrack-ng - 🤝👂 phishing kits - 💣➡️💌 msfvenom - 🎁 metasploit - 😎 sqlmap - 🎲🎲🎱🎱🤞🙏 🙏 🙏
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5 years
hacking tip: keep a chess board near ur computer so when u hack something u can lean back in ur chair, say "hah, checkmate" to an empty room then just move a chess piece randomly
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1 year
the "wisdom of the crowd" effect says that if you ask a lot of people to estimate a number (how tall is the eiffel tower?), then average it, you'll be pretty close. i hear you asking, and yes: this also works on SSH private keys
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3 years
devastating
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3 years
[extremely cyberpunk voice] there’s only one law in Night City. SLEEP. it’s always night time in Night City, only the most REFRESHED survive. get 8 hours sleep, if you can handle it
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communication is hard. there's so much nuance! that's why me and my factorio discord have invented a simple, json based protocol t
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3 years
yeah pretty booked out this afternoon unfortunately
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1 year
"the stereotype that all rust programmers are catboys is harmful to the language" the language:
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Aria the Cat
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Mommy's here to support you when running cargo~ ❤️ Just `cargo install cargo-mommy` and she'll take care of you~ ❤️ You can set CARGO_MOMMYS_LITTLE in your environment to any affectionate term you want, and be mommy's little boy or mommy's little kitten~ ❤️
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2 years
i thought security research would be like lab coats and calls from the president, but it's actually a LOT more like reinstalling vmware tools than you'd think
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3 years
when u use a computer
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3 years
buy buy buy
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3 years
me as a kid: computer didn't like that lmao me in uni: computers do not "like" things you blathering dolt, an exception has been raised me now: computer didn't like that lmao
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1 year
can you imagine the DRIP
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4 years
a lotta people try to hack like this, big mistake. what you actually wanna do is hack more like this
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4 years
thinkin' bout changing my bio to "self-described hacker"
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3 years
anyone thinking about participating in the Do Not Get Arrested Challenge 2021, my #1 tip is: do not do a crime
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3 years
oh ur really gonna tell me u play chess when u don't even know how to move the giraffes
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1 year
game of the year 2022 for me would definitely have to be Visual Studio Code. loved the level design, modding support, and really impressed that they got Timothée Chalamet to play the navbar. rly looking forward to microsoft adding ranked matchmaking in 2023
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2 years
lotta people in tech for the money these days, back in my day we just did it bc we loved yaml
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2 years
no yeah you would have to say that wouldn't you
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4 years
this person has been finding similar airline booking reference security problems to me, but they started in 2000, when i was learning to read
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Edward Hasbrouck (mastodon.online/@ehasbrouck)
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"Record locators" as "passwords" (not) for airline reservations (PNRs) are not a new or previously-unknown vulnerability. It could be fixed, but hasn't been yet. Governments have also known about it -- and have also chosen not to do anything: @mangopdf
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